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Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?

— John Ashbery, "A Wave" in "A Wave: Poems" (Open Road Media, 1985) (via Regina Rosenfeld)

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By François Schuiten from "Les cités obscures"

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Napoleon (2023)

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Isolation party, Guim Tió Zarraluki

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May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude [ID in alt text]

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Drink up, Stephanie Davidson

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Viva Varda! (Pierre-Henri Gibert, 2023)

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TED Talks to end the Year on a high note

Brain Magic by Keith Barry

The brain changing benefits of exercise by Wendy Suzuki

Power foods for the brain by Neal Barnard

Intermittent fasting: Transformational Technique by Cynthia Thurlow

You don't find happiness, you create it by Katarina Bloom

The Art of being yourself by Caroline McHugh

The magic of not caring by Sarah Knight

How to not take things personally by Frederik Imbo

Speaking Up Without Freaking Out by Matt Abrahams

How to motivate yourself to change your behavior by Tali Sharot

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“Achieve results, but never glory in them. Achieve results, but never boast. Achieve results, but never be proud.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 30)

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“I do not wish you much happiness — it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people’s philosophy, I will simply repeat: ‘Live more’ and try somehow not to be too bored…”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

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Levi Prentice (American,1851-1935)

Still Life with Seashells, c.1892

oil on canvas

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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Relief is often a stronger and more layered pleasure than happiness.

— Catherine Lacey, Biography of X: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 21, 2023)